[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Patrick Coskren]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Charles Bennett wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 30 Nov 2007, at 03:14, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>>> I admit there's a ruckuss in the media about creationism in Science
>>> over in the US but that's just in backward areas right?
>>
>> Be afraid, be very afraid. Creationists are infiltrating schools in
>> (at least) Denmark and Germany. There was a documentary from a
>> reliable film maker on one of the most conservative channels here in
>> Germany about this around 6 months ago.
>>
>> More recently, friends of ours reported that they were confronted  
>> with
>> creationist school teachers at an open day at a *primary* school here
>> in Berlin.
>
> So..  Just to be clear.  Your friends object to a Creationist  
> teacher being in a school where Islam may taught?
>
> WTF?  Over.

The problem isn't religious education, Chuck, at least in the context  
of the German schools, which I gather have a different approach than  
US ones by permitting religious education.  The problem is *science*  
education.  "Classes in the Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths were  
offered."  Nobody cares if the religion teacher says God created the  
universe in seven days.  People care when the science teacher says it.

-Patrick